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From Wednesday 18 September 2013

Saint[The]Sinner – ‘The Curious Tale of Mistress Murder’

Appearances can be deceiving and that is no exception for SaintSinner. From their press shots they look like such nice quiet boys fit for a folk band but the cold hard reality is that they are very noisy with big riffs and lots of shouting. Relatively new to the

Thursday 12 September 2013

Direct Hit! – ‘Brainless God’

If you’re not already aware, pop punk is a thing we love here at Punktastic, but we also know it’s a bit saccharine for some. Interestingly, those people are sometimes also the people who can be seen singing Fall Out Boy at the top of their voices at

Wednesday 11 September 2013

Tonight Alive – ‘The Other Side’

Since 2008, Sydney’s Tonight Alive have been riding an incredible wave and their second album, ‘The Other Side’, will see them reach even higher. These confident, catchy and polished tracks are primed for the mainstream and international stardom. Naturally this will appeal to the next generation of rock-friendly

Monday 09 September 2013

Balance and Composure – ‘The Things We Think We’re Missing’

Balance and Composure are back. They release their new album ‘The Things We Think We’re Missing’ off the back of an incredibly successful album in ‘Separation’ an album that saw the band reach new heights. From the very get go the production values in the album are much, much

Sunday 08 September 2013

Zebrahead – ‘Call Your Friends’

Zebrahead won’t win a Grammy any time soon, that is just the way it is. But, ten albums in, it gets ever clearer that they have a formula and it works. The infectious pop hooks and huge choruses throughout their latest album “Call Your Friends” earn more than

Wednesday 04 September 2013

Now, Voyager – ‘Tell-Tale Hearts’

Things we associate with Belgium tend to be along the lines of Chocolate, Brussel Sprouts and Jean-Claude Van Damme. One of the things we don’t associate with Belgium is fucking intense hardcore. Now, Voyager have created a brilliant little four track banger in the shape of their ‘Tell-Tale Hearts’

Tuesday 03 September 2013

De Memoria – ‘Tales’

Hardcore has certainly evolved in recent years. While the contingent of bald blokes in camo shorts is certainly still present, movements such as ‘The Wave’ (for the uninitiated: think La Dispute, Touche Amore and Kerouac) have brought a newly musical lease of life to the genre. Australia’s De Memoria

LIVE: Alkaline Trio @ Islington Academy [29/08/2013]

photo by Graham Berry Ten years ago the world was a different place. No one had heard of Facebook, MySpace reigned supreme and we certainly couldn’t have envisioned ourselves killing time at work by reading a million variations on an article entitled ‘25 signs that you’re really old and everything

Friday 30 August 2013

LIVE: Reading Festival 2013 Sunday

Right, Sunday. Last night’s party was fucking insane and we’re all feeling it, the weather isn’t superb either, but tonight see’s Biffy Clyro bring a headline set to Reading and the full on return of Fall Out Boy, so we are PUMPED. Let’s get to it shall we? SUNDAY Faced with

Live: Reading 2013 Saturday

So the first of the weekend’s hangovers is here, and yeah, it hurts but fuck it. There’s a whole day of awesomeness ahead of us so let’s get going. SATURDAY Opening up the lock up stage and hoping to dust off some Saturday hangovers is Decade who have managed to get